Suzy Klein
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.
Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Suzy Klein.
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1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we bring you five pieces of music for winter.
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Costanzo Porta
Sinfonia in D major
Performer: Simon Munday. Performer: Adrian Chandler. Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.- AVIE.
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Anon.
Veni, veni, Emmanuel - Advent hymn [French missal]
Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.- SIGNUM CLASSICS.
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Anne Dudley
Veni Emmanuel
Performer: Studio chorus and orchestra.- Echo.
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Franz Schubert
Hungarian Melody in B minor D.817
Performer: Florian Mitrea.- ACOUSENCE.
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Francis Poulenc
Concert champ锚tre (3rd mvt)
Performer: Maggie Cole. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- Poulenc: The Concertos for Solo Keyboard: Hickox.
- Virgin.
- 9.
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Johannes Brahms
Symphony no.1 in C minor Op.68 (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marek Janowski.- Brahms: Complete Symphonies.
- PENTATONE.
- 103.
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George Frideric Handel
Venere bella (Giulio Cesare)
Singer: Natalie Dessay. Orchestra: Le Concert d鈥橝str茅e. Director: Emmanuelle Ha茂m.- G. F. Handel: Cleopatra: Arias from Giulio Cesare: Natalie Dessay/Emmanuelle Hai.
- Virgin Classics.
- 6.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Cello Sonata in F major, Op.5 No.1: II. Rondo
Performer: Rapha毛l Pidoux. Performer: Tanguy de Williencourt.- Beethoven: Cello Sonatas, Op. 5.
- harmonia mundi.
- 102.
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Claude Debussy
Sir猫nes (Nocturnes)
Choir: Les Cris de Paris. Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.- Debussy: Jeux, Nocturnes, Pr茅lude 脿 l'apr茅s midi d'un faune.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 105.
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Leonard Bernstein
Tonight (West Side Story)
Music Arranger: Henk Huizinga. Performer: Gwendolyn Masin. Ensemble: Melisma Saxophone Quartet.- Bernstein: West Side Story (Arr. H. Huizinga for Violin & Saxophone Quartet) [Li.
- Orchid Classics.
- 1501.
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Louise Farrenc
Symphony no. 2 in D major (4th mvt)
Orchestra: European Soloists, Luxembourg. Conductor: Christoph Koenig.- Farrenc: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3.
- Naxos.
- 4.
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Vision for piano
Performer: Philip Martin.- Gottschalk: Piano Music 6: Philip Martin.
- Hyperion.
- 3.
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Giuseppe Verdi
La Forza del Destino (Overture)
Orchestra: NBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini.- RCA.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mass in C major K.317 'Coronation' (Agnus Dei)
Singer: Barbara Bonney. Choir: The English Concert Choir. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.- DG Archiv.
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Darius Milhaud
Le Corso (Le carnaval d'Aix)
Performer: Jack Gibbons. Orchestra: New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.- Carnaval D'Aix - Carnaval De Londres etc New London Orchestra/Ronald Corp.
- Hyperion.
- 1.
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George Frideric Handel
The Harmonious Blacksmith (Keyboard Suite no.5 in E major HWV.430)
Performer: Trevor Pinnock.- The Harmonious Blacksmith - Favourite Harpsichord Pieces: Pinnock.
- Archiv Produktion.
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Dobrinka Tabakova
Suite in Old Style (1st mvt)
Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Vaiva Eidukaityt臈-Storastien臈. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras.- ECM New Series.
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Fanny Mendelssohn
String Quartet in E flat (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Quatuor 脡b猫ne.- Mendelssohn Felix and Fanny.
- ERATO.
- 7.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
A London Symphony (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.- DECCA.
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Joseph Haydn
The Seasons (Winter - conclusion)
Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Singer: Jeremy Ovenden. Singer: Andrew Foster-Williams. Choir: Ch贸r Narodowego Forum Muzyki. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Orchestra: Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.- Haydn: The Seasons.
- Signum Classics.
- 219.
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Joanna Lee
Midnight Feast
Performer: Hyeyoon Park. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.- Many Voices: 10 New Pieces for Violin.
- NMC Recordings.
- 801.
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Anonymous
The Play of Daniel [Belshazzar's Feast] (Vasa Templorum)
Ensemble: Harp Consort. Director: Andrew Lawrence鈥怟ing.- DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Jesu, Joy of Man鈥檚 Desiring
Music Arranger: Myra Hess. Performer: Dinu Lipatti.- PHILIPS.
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Jean Sibelius
2 Serenades Op.69 (no.1 in D major)
Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta.- Ondine.
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Sir George Dyson
Concerto da Chiesa (Veni, Emmanuel)
Performer: Andrew Watkinson. Performer: Edward Roberts. Performer: Stephen Tees. Performer: Stephen Orton. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- CHANDOS.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Cantata no.62)
Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.- J S Bach - Advent Cantatas.
- Harmonia Mundi.
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William Grant Still
Africa (Land of Peace)
Orchestra: Fort Smith Orchestra. Conductor: John Jeter.- NAXOS.
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